title: [Comments on specific early rehabilitation of patients with severe craniocerebral trauma].
abstract: The considerable advances made in the rescue and intensive care fields have entailed drastically increased numbers of survivors of severe head injury. Because of ethical reasons alone, the call for early rehabilitation of patients with persistent vegetative state post-trauma appears justified. Aside lifesaving intensive medical care in the acute phase, available empirical studies have so far not been able to provide evidence for the superiority of specific early rehabilitation measures. Clinicians lack pragmatic decision-making aids in the question of how long patients should be treated in the acute clinic. Nursing homes currently are no alternative, as they will hardly ever be equipped in a manner enabling them to cope with the considerable nursing requirements posed by these patients.
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut für Psychiatrie, München.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schreiber
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mai
mesh_terms: D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D003128:Coma / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans
vernacular_title: Uberlegungen zur spezifischen Frührehabilitation bei Patienten mit schwerem Schädel-Hirn-Trauma.